There are three vampire bat species: the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) and the white-winged vampire bat (Diaemus youngi). All are found ...

A taxidermy specimen of a common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) feeding on a pig, at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Sandstein / Wikimedia Commons CC 3.0 ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered that common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) possess a unique metabolic strategy, burning proteins directly for energy during exercise—a ...

Desmodus rotundus species (common vampire bat) is considered the key species of rabies transmission to other animal species (spillover) among Latin American regions.

Fossils found in California, Florida, Texas and Arizona (among other states), dating back to approximately 5,000 to 30,000 years ago, indicate that the vampire bat once lived in the U.S. when it ...

Though vampire movies treat blood like an elixir, the watery fluid is nearly devoid of carbohydrates and fats, and it has few calories. Because of these deficiencies, vampire bats have lower ...

A novel endogenous betaretrovirus in the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) suggests multiple independent infection and cross-species transmission events. Journal of Virology, 2015; JVI.03452 ...

The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, feeds on mammalian blood and is a major agricultural pest in Latin America. One way to prevent bats from biting livestock is to understand how the bats ...

A vampire bat feeds on a pig Wikimedia Commons They may not be Dracula in disguise, but vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are still creepy nocturnal critters that need blood to survive. Scientists ...

Figure 1: A vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, using a running gait at 0.61 m s−1 with a stride frequency of 4.71 Hz. Images are shown at 24-ms intervals; the background is a 1.0-cm 2 grid.